Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011255View near Orleans
About the Artwork
The Dutch artist Isaac de Moucheron’s view of a rural hillside is inscribed in Dutch “Buyten Orleans” (outside Orleans), indicating that he made the drawing while passing through France on a journey from the Netherlands to Italy. De Moucheron likely captured this scene with graphite and ink while on-site and then finished it later with gray, brown, and pink washes. Many Dutch artists took Italian sojourns to sketch the landscape, antique sculpture, and architecture.
Inscriptions
Upper center, in brown ink: Buyten Orleans; verso, in brown ink, lower left: N. 7. (numeral of Johan Goll van Franckenstein senior (Lugt. 2987); verso, in graphite: 7. and d Moucheron? (crossed out) and 145; Collector’s stamp verso, “PG”? in red ink; watermark: fleur de lys (Hinterding B-a_NGV-23-4)
Provenance
Jeronimus Tonneman [1687-1750], Amsterdam, Netherlands Maria Tonneman [d. 1752] (by inheritance), Amsterdam, Netherlands October 21, 1754: Maria Tonneman sale, Amsterdam, Netherlands Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Sr. [1722-1785], Amsterdam, Netherlands Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Jr. [1756-1821], Amsterdam, Netherlands Jonkheer Pieter Hendrick Goll van Franckenstein [1787-1832], Amsterdam, Netherlands July 1, 1833: Jonkheer Pieter Hendrick Goll van Franckenstein sale, Amsterdam, Netherlands Cornelis Steffelaar [1797-1861], Amsterdam and Haarlem, Netherlands October 15-16, 1861: (possibly) Cornelis Steffelaar sale, Amsterdam, Netherlands Antonius Wilhelmus Marie Mensing [1866-1936] Amsterdam and Aerdenhout, Netherlands October 26, 1937: Antonius Wilhelmus Marie Mensing sale, Amsterdam, Netherlands Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Isaac de Moucheron (Dutch, 1667–1744)
- Date
- c. 1695–97
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, grey, brown, pink-brown, and pale grey mixed with white washes, with traces of graphite underdrawing on laid paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- Support: 35.2 x 42.5 cm (13 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.); Matted: 38.4 x 46.8 x 0.5 cm (15 1/8 x 18 7/16 x 3/16 in.); Image: 22.8 x 29.4 cm (9 x 11 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.17
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